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Viggo Mortensen

Viggo Mortensen is an American-Danish actor, director, producer, poet, and photographer. * He was born in New York City on…

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Viktor E. Frankl

Viktor Emil Frankl was an Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that…

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Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of…

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Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. * She was a writer, essayist, and publisher. * She is considered one of the most…

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Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West was born on March 9, 1892, in Knole, Kent, England. * She was the only child of cousins Victoria…

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Vivian Greene

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Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was born in Simbirsk, Russia, in 1870. * He was the son of a middle-class school inspector. * Lenin studied…

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Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 1899. * He was a Russian-American novelist, short story writer, poet,…

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W. Somerset Maugham

W. Somerset Maugham was born in Paris, France in 1874. * He was orphaned at the age of 10 and raised by his uncle. * He studied…

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W.B. Yeats

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, playwright, and essayist. He was born in Dublin in 1865 and died in…

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W.E.B. Du Bois

W.E.B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, editor, and writer. * He…

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W.H. Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden was an English-American poet, born in York, England on February 21, 1907. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford,…

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W.P. Kinsella

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Walker Percy

Walker Percy was an American novelist, essayist, and philosopher. * He was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1916. * He studied at…

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Wallace Stegner

Wallace Stegner was born in Lake Mills, Iowa, on February 18, 1909. * He grew up in Great Falls, Montana, and Salt Lake City,…

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Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1879. * He attended Harvard University and New York Law School. * He worked…

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Wally Lamb

Wally Lamb was born on October 17, 1950 in Norwich, Connecticut. * He is a best-selling author of several novels, including…

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Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, in West Hills, New York. He was a poet, journalist, and essayist. His most famous work is…

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